Preliminary evaluation

My short film is about a girl trying to survive as her family turns into demons and try to kill her. I chose horror/thriller as I like that type of film and I would learn how to make the genre clear for my real film. I used lots of shots to help the audience understand the story of my film. I used a low angle shot to make the girl look weak, which make the audience want her to live and fear for her. I also used close ups to make the film more intense; one shot in partially that has the mise en scene of the knife with blood on, make the audience foresee that something bad is going to happen. There is another close up of the demons eye and the pupil changes size, which adds a creepy vibe to the film. However my favorite shot is of the candles; they are a code to the girl’s life as they are lighted and then suddenly die out. I feel my shots affect the audience in all these ways very well, but there are some shots where you can see the demon not sat in the seat, as I played the demon and filmed. I could not be in two places at the same time, so next time I will have get more people involved to help out. It was also hard for the camera to be still, as did not have a tri pod. This made some shots look a bit shaky; next time I will need to have a tri pod to give it a more professional look. The setting is in my kitchen, which is not great as its not very scary. Next time I will try to find a location, which has a creepy feel to it. I was not able to find a place because I had little time. I did the makeup for the demon, which I thought was good but next time I would like to do something more ambitious: maybe a full on zombie. The lighting in my film is dark to build up the tension; I wish it were a little more dark as we filmed in the day, and I had to close the blinds, which didn’t do much. I would have liked to add a soundtrack to the film but I didn’t have the time; on my real film I want to make my own soundtrack by using Garage Band. This will make it different and unique from other people’s films. I have learnt how to use final cut to edit my film, put text in and to edit the sound. I think my film sort of met the brief, the problem was that because I didn’t have a tripod it was hard to not break the 180-line rule. Sometimes the camera was set on the middle of line as I placed it on the table (in the middle) so it would not shake. But a part from that I think I did met the brief.